Name Position Professor R.R. Schrock (Nobel Laureate), MIT, USA Professor J.A. Dumesic Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor T. Tatsumi Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan Professor J.K. Nørskov TU of Denmark, Denmark Professor R. Prins ETH Zurich, Switzerland Plenary lecturer from industry will be decided soon.   Name Title Prof. M. Barteau (Univ. of Delaware) TBA Prof. K. Domen (Univ. of Tokyo) New photocatalytic systems for overall water splitting reaction Dr. J. Holmgren (UOP) Refining bio-feedstocks: Innovations for renewable diesel, gasoline and olefins Prof. G. Hutchings (Univ. of Wales) Recent advances in selective catalysis using supported gold nanoparticles Prof. W. Kaminsky (Univ. of Hamburg) Tailored polyolefins and nanocomposite materials by metallocene catalysis Prof. H. H. Kung (Northwestern Univ.) Cooperative effects in novel catalytic structures and environment Prof. J. Lercher (TU Munich) Catalytic activation of light alkanes Dr. S. H. Oh  (GM) Challenges and research needs in future automotive emission control: Industrial perspective Prof. R. Ryoo (KAIST) Hierarchical zeolites for catalytic application Prof. R. Schloegl (Fritz-Haber-Institute) Dynamics of oxidation catalysts Prof. G. A. Somorjai (UC-Berkeley) TBA   Name Title Dr. Jorge Ancheyta Comparison of Co-current and Counter-current Hydrotreating Reactors by Means of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation Prof. X. Bao (DICP) Catalysis with carbon nanotube: A novel chemistry of the confined nano-systems Prof. G. Centi (Univ. of Messina) Nano-reactor engineering of catalytic surfaces Prof. R. J. Davis (VPI) Selective oxidation catalyzed by supported Au and Au-Pd nanoparticles Prof. H. Freund (Fritz-Haber-Inst) TBA Prof. K. P. Jong (Utrecht Univ.) Carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes for catalysts and sorbents Prof. S. Kasztelan TBA Prof. Can Li (DICP) TBA Prof. G. B. Marin (Ghent Univ.) TBA Prof. N. Mizuno (Univ. of Tokyo) Fine control of structures and functions of polyoxometalates and the application to selective oxidation catalysis Prof. T. Maschmeyer Hierarchically structured composite materials for the photocatalytic splitting of water with visible light Prof. W. F. Maier (Univ. Saarlands) Discovery of new heterogeneous catalysts of unusual selectivity by HT -technologies Prof. Y. Okamoto (Shimane Univ.) Molecular design and characterization of hydrodesulfurization catalysts for cleaner fuels. Prof. S. T. Oyama (Virginia Tech) Nanostructure of a high-permeability, hydrogen-selective inorganic membrane and its use in enhancing catalytic reforming and oxidation reactions Dr. C. Peden (PNNL) The use of ultra high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the surface structure of poorly crystalline -Al2O3 surfaces Prof. C. Song (Penn. State Univ.) New design concepts for sulfur-tolerant noble-metal catalysts for ultra clean fuels Prof. M. Terano (JAIST) TBA Prof. W. Ueda (Hokkaido Univ.) Zeolitic crystalline Mo3VOx oxides active for catalytic selective oxidation Prof. B. Viswanathan (IIT-Madras) TBA Dr. Y. Wang (PNNL) Preparation and characterization of nanodispersed early transition metal oxide catalysts on mesoporous silica Prof. B. Weckhuysen (Utrecht Univ.) Catalyst locomotion: Probing catalytic solids at work with in-situ spectroscopy and microscopy Prof. C.-S. Wu Photo-selective catalytic reduction of NO in an optical-fiber photoreactor